My Health & Fitness column in the Aiken Standard this week is about the safety of food additives. It was inspired by a recent article and editorial in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Basically, many commonly used food additives have not undergone adequate testing for safety and approval by the FDA, mostly because everyone (literally, everyone) who serves on the panels that approve these additives as GRAS (generally recognized as safe) is either directly or indirectly paid by the additive manufacturers. And that just ain’t right!
If you are interested in food additives and other aspects of food safety, nutrition, and health, here are two excellent resources:
The Center for Science in the Public Interest report on food additive safety : http://www.cspinet.com/reports/chemcuisine.htm
Marion Nestle, the author of the editorial mentioned above, has an excellent blog about all aspects of nutrition, including food additives and safety: http://www.foodpolitics.com/
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